Friday, 20 July 2012

Review: Allison Hewitt is trapped by Madeleine Roux

Allison Hewitt is trapped by Madeleine Roux.

Allison Hewitt is
trapped. In the storeroom of Brookes & Peabody's. In a world
swarming with the Undead, the Doomed, the Infected.

Locked
away with an oddball collection of colleagues and under siege,
Allison takes advantage of a surviving internet connection and blogs.
She writes, as the food runs out and panic sets in, as relationships
develop and friends die, and as zombies claw at the door, all in the
hope of connecting with other survivors out there. But as she reads
the replies to her posts, Allison begins to comprehend the horrifying
scale of the damage. And when no one comes to the group's rescue,
they are forced to leave the safety of their room and risk a journey
across the city; streets that crawl with zombies, and worse - fellow
humans competing for survival.

I
love a good zombie novel and Allison Hewitt is trapped was full of
the fast paced action that makes these novels so good! Now onto the
review...

The
cover:I love this cover so
much! Its perfect for the story as you can tell just by looking at it
that the book will be full of action and horror. The axe pictured on
the front is also amazing as it has meaning to the story so its not
just a random object they decided to put on it. The one thing that
may be a flaw to this book is the title, Allison Hewitt is trapped,
as it leads people to believe that the whole novel will be centred
around Allison being trapped in one place throughout the novel when,
in fact, she isn't. However it is a striking title and did attract me
to buy this book so I’ll let it slide!

The
characters:The main character,
Allison, is amazing and had everything I loved a main character to
have. She's sarcastic, strong willed but also like your average
human, which is so good because it adds a sense of realism to her
character but also makes the story humorous as she throws in some
snarky remarks now and then. A lot of side characters are featured in
this book and some are described very well and I felt myself becoming
attached to them as well (Ted!) but because so many characters leave
the story throughout the novel, we don't get to know them as well.
However, making so many characters leave the story did make it more
realistic as in a zombie apocalypse, im pretty sure many people will
split up, get killed or go missing, so even if the characters aren't
described that well, it makes the story that much more realistic.

The
setting: The story begins in a
book store which immediately makes me love the setting, but I did
love the fact that the setting kept changing throughout the novel as
readers get to see different sides to a zombie apocalypse. We get to
see survival camps, a book store's staff room with zombies trying to
find their way in, enemy camps, and characters driving throughout the
abandoned streets, what's not to love?!

The
overall story:The story is
very fast paced and full of action which makes it such a good zombie
apocalypse novel, but the fact that its written in blog posts gives
this novel a unique viewpoint and gives it a sense of realism. You
get to see different aspects of a zombie apocalypse through Allison's
different experiences but also through the people that comment on her
blog posts! The romance in this book wasn't brilliant and I didn't
find myself pining for them to be together, but the romance only
played a small part in this story so it didn't really effect my view
on the storyline.

Allison
Hewitt is trapped was a very exciting read and gives a frightening
and realistic view of a zombie apocalypse but also adds humour to it
to not make it so heavy and dark. Overall, I give this book a 4
out of 5stars!